I once had a senior dev admit during an exit interview, "I thought that if I made [tech choice] complicated, it would force everyone else to sit down and learn it correctly. But instead, everyone just did a shitty job, and the codebase got worse."
im just saying imagine if you could pay 99 cents to have people listen to the most compressed wav file of a disturbed song youโve ever heard while theyโre composing it